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- Mommy goes to stained glass most Thursday nights, so that’s guys’ night at our house. The boys get to play video games for too long and choose what we have for dinner. Tonight was cheeseburgers. I didn’t feel like messing with ground beef and onion soup and what-not, so I bought Bubba Burgers. Further, I didn’t feel like braving the cold to grill, so I did ’em in the skillet. Wow. I haven’t so effectively smoked up the house in quite some time. I think the smoke will be gone by the time she gets home, but the smell’s going to hang around for a couple of days.
- I’ve enjoyed Hunter S. Thompson when I’ve encountered him, but I’ve never read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. I think that’s next.
- Imagine an SEC coach—particularly one from one of the better teams in the conference—sitting on knowledge of NCAA violations for eight months. Imagine him lying about it multiple times on documents he signed. Now tell me there wouldn’t be coast-to-coast shrieking for his head on a platter. I know there is widespread disapproval of Jim Tressel’s conduct, but nothing approaching the cacophony a Spurrier, Saban, or Petrino would have generated.
- Lea and I watched Red on Blu-ray last night. It was a perfect Netflix movie—thoroughly enjoyable for the time spent, and strong suspicion of no reward in subsequent viewings (so no need to own it). As my Netflix membership has only led to two purchases (Moon and Kick-Ass), my rationalization that it would be a money-saving move seems to be holding up well.
- My longstanding dislike of purely cosmetic (i.e., no reconstructive need) surgery has not abated. That said, Helen Mirren is just spectacular, and I have trouble believing she’s intact. Sigh. I wish for a movement in Hollywood in which vanity and concerns about marketability take a back seat to the glory of a such a natural beauty staying a natural beauty—only older. Susan Sarandon and Diane Keaton are two other prominent tragedies of this sort. Annette Bening, 52, is becoming a serious threat to mess herself up. Sigourney Weaver sounds as if she may carry the unmodified flag proudly for all of her days, and good for her.
- Several years ago, I posted on Usenet what have turned out to be quasi-canonical instructions for changing the clock light bulb in a sixth-generation Accord. I exchange email once in a while with someone who’s found them. Today it was Pat, who had lots of questions, a few somewhat inane. I was intrigued by the reaction I had to Pat’s androgynous name. If I imagined Pat as a woman, her questions didn’t bother me. If I imagined Pat as a man, he irritated the hell out of me. (I’m sure there is wantonly heinous and heinously wanton sexism here for those predisposed to find it. I just found it interesting.)
- Yeah, took a few days off there. I’d become displeased with the quality of my posts, and needed a little self-examination. I’ve generally striven for a post a day, on average if not by the letter, and I’m going to come off that a little bit to perhaps five posts a week. (Thursday miscellanea shall remain politics-free.) Thanks for hanging with me, folks. I appreciate you.
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I wanna be Helen Mirren when I grow up.
Incidentally, Hizzoner agrees with you 100% on Tressel.
Just want to be clear. Are you suggesting that the media would be harder on an SEC coach? If so, what evidence do you have of this? Unfortunately, this kind of trouble with the NCAA seems to be becoming more of the norm. Coaches rarely get run off because of their sanctimonious actions, they clean out their office because they haven’t won enough in the last six games (Tommy Tuberville, Phil Fulmer, Mike Shula conference call, line one), are too big of a jerk to deal with (see Mike Leach), or are just too big (step away from the buffett Mark Mangino). Tressel gets run off when the Wolverines start handing him his head on a platter on the football field, hardly anything else. Same with Spurrier, Saban, or Petrino and whoever their boosters deem linear.
Charles, it’s a comment on selective outrage in the media. Tressel did a bad thing, and my mercy, it’s awful, and goodness, it raises an eyebrow or two that the AD said he hoped Tressel didn’t fire him! Heh heh. Whereas a Saban or a Spurrier in a similar circumstance would have been giving yet another window on his thoroughly foul character, and this is yet more evidence of the institutional and inherent corruption in southern college football, and it’s such a shame these fine young kids are getting chewed up and spit out by such a soulless, immoral winning machine as that damned old SEC.
You must read different media than I do. It’s a stretch to say that Saban and Spurrier are looked upon as having thoroughly foul character (I know you are exaggerating, but…). Isn’t Spurrier “The Ole Ball Coach”? Seems to me, they are treated quite well, because it is all about the wins. In Tressel’s case, this is Ohio State punishment. My point is rarely anyone runs off a winner. No matter what. If Nick Saban did this and Mal Moore fired him, at this point in the investigation, many Bama fans would be pissed. The highly suspect moral issues would be reduced to “it’s just jerseys and tattoos”. But most fans see their teams with their jersey colored glasses, it’s what fandom is, and what makes it fun. Media isn’t much different. The OSU AD isn’t stupid, but this probably isn’t over. I suspect that the media pressure will only increase and Tressel will be thrown under his proper bus, especially when THE Ohio State sucks next year. Any members of the media who try to protect fine young kids from soulless coaches isn’t paying attention to the increasingly difficult job of keeping the SA’s in class for four years and out of jail, and out of Waffle House agent meetings, and out of tattoo parlors. I just don’t agree that the SEC is picked on, other than typical jealousy that comes with winning.
Pirate Radio. Bought Pirate Radio after Netflixing it too. Forgot about that one (probably because BamaDan snagged that one for me on the cheap at a closing Blockbuster).
Well, there’s your problem. East Carolina radio has always had SEC envy.